A new report warns of a looming biological agent attack, emphasizing the risks of bioterrorism using pathogens like anthrax and Ebola. Somewhere in the world within the next five years, terrorists are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forty-two years ago today, on August 29, 1984, an unsettling chapter in American history was unfolding in The Dalles, Oregon, ...

There’s a pretty sizable list of things an AI assistant should refuse to help you with. Is engineering a doomsday pathogen one of them? Evidently, not every AI company thinks so. According to new ...

Citizens of Chicago and Seattle shouldn't become alarmed if they see "space suit"-attired groups of people rushing around May 12. Such an event, Homeland Defense Secretary Tom Ridge noted here today, ...

It has been almost a decade since the anthrax attacks of 2001. In response to that crisis, which began only one week after the 9/11 attacks, America has made major strides in protecting itself from a ...